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Media Monopoly & "The Cash-Register Singing Dream" -- FCC Hearing 11/30

By noemie maxwell
Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 03:24:25 PM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Alternative and Community Media

"Next week the FCC is going to announce that it's going to reevaluate the cross-ownership ban which prohibits a company from owning a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same community. This is the cash register singing dream of big media owners in this country that they can have all the media in a single town."
Robert McChesney, quoted from Youtube snippet, below.

SEATTLE FCC MEDIA OWNERSHIP HEARING
From Washington's Reclaim the Media
Thursday, Nov. 30 6pm-9pm
Seattle Public Library (4th and Madison, downtown Seattle)
With FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein.
Opening statements by Senator Maria Cantwell and Representative Jay Inslee. (Press release continued, below the fold.)

Continuation of Reclaim The Media Press Release
The Federal Communications Commission is considering making changes to its rules which set limits on the expansion of big media companies -- how many TV channels, radio stations and newspapers a single company can own in a single city or nationwide. These rules are designed to maintain a healthy democracy through media outlets which are diverse, information-rich and accountable to their local communities.

However, big media companies like Viacom, Disney and Clear Channel see those rules--and those democratic values-- as barriers to higher profits. They're spending millions lobbying the FCC to weaken or abolish the ownership rules.

Make your voice heard as well. Come to the public hearing Nov. 30 and tell the FCC why you think big media is big enough already! (Bring your friends, and prepare your two-minute testimony.)

Read about the issues at Reclaim the Media
You can also submit testimony online at www.stopbigmedia.com.

Hearing sponsored by Reclaim the Media, the Seattle Times, Community Radio KBCS 91.3 FM, the Minority Executive Directors Association and the University of Washington Department of Communication.

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Media Monopoly & "The Cash-Register Singing Dream" -- FCC Hearing 11/30 | 4 comments (4 topical)

This is SOOOOOOOO Important

if it weren't for the advent of blogs -

a completely random / dumb luck / piece of ... historical dumb luck

we'd be all listening to NPR's right wing crap, and waiting for the too few pieces of insight from Frank Rich and Krugman and a few others, cuz

the usual fucking lies from the MSM would be completely undigestable, and you'd be sticking forks in your ears listening to the latest 'success' in Iraq.

BTW - I personally don't give too much concern to newspapers - someone can always go to kinko's with a roll of dimes and start their own local paper.

The Airwaves however -

ARE OUR / MY PROPERTY.

We the people should get
$1 year for lease, AND
OPEN on the internet booking / accounting from the lease owner, AND
a % of the profit, AND

PAYMENT for every second of broadcast time when only side of a story is told.

IF NBC wants to push the war - go ahead. Just PAY all Americans 1 penny per second of your propaganda / selling for G.E.

Sell whatever the fuck you want on MY AIRWAVES, AND

PAY ME FOR IT.

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 05:42:50 PM PST

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Libertarians have it easy by m3047, 11/20/2006 05:57:24 PM PST (5.00 / 1)

libertarians are full of crap, but by rmdSeaBos, 11/20/2006 06:46:02 PM PST (5.00 / 2)

If you go - some points to mention

The 2003 Columbia University 5-year study on local TV News in the US found in their analysis of 172 distinct news programs, some 23,000 stories, that ownership type did make a difference.

Key findings:

* Smaller station groups overall tended to produce higher quality newscasts than stations owned by larger companies-by a significant margin.
* Network affiliated stations tended to produce higher quality newscasts than network owned and operated stations-also by a large margin.
* Stations with cross-ownership-in which the parent company also owns a newspaper in the same market-tended to produce higher quality newscasts.
* Local ownership offered little protection against newscasts being very poor, and did not produce superior quality.

by Brian on Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 11:43:46 PM PST

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Media Monopoly & "The Cash-Register Singing Dream" -- FCC Hearing 11/30 | 4 comments (4 topical)

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